I’m a PhD candidate in Second Language Acquisition and Teaching (SLAT) at the University of Arizona. My main work focuses on second and third language acquisition of sound systems, while I major in general linguistic analysis and minor in instructional technology, both of which I put into practice everyday in the classes I teach.

As a student in SLAT, I am truly interdisciplinary. I constantly work on various kinds of projects at the same time and I enjoy many different areas of linguistics. I worked on the syntax of Spanish for my M.A. thesis, which I loved, and then discovered Phonetics, my new passion. Don’t get me wrong, I still could spend hours and hours drawing syntactic trees with a smile on my face, but I can’t help feeling attracted to different areas of linguistic analysis. I enjoy Phonetics because it gives me a chance to study, in a very controlled way, some of the many aspects of multilingualism and L2+ language acquisition that I am so curious about.

As for the variety of projects I work on, they expand from adapting and creating materials for online translation courses, to teaching Spanish Phonetics/Phonology courses both to Spanish as a foreign language learners as well as to Heritage learners of Spanish, to teaching Portuguese language courses, to organizing conferences, to working with the Western Hemisphere Institute with indigenous young leaders from Latin America as they visit the University of Arizona.

Finally, I am from the region in Europe called the Basque Country. My home town, Zarautz, is a very pretty beach town about half an hour away from France. Basque, our local language, is a linguistic mystery that would marvel anyone interested in the study of languages.

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